Scrapbook photograph album containing albumen and gelatin prints and
cyanotypes documents parts of
Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama around the turn
of the century. The album emphasizes African- Americans at work and in school.
Included are photographs of whites and blacks together, nature scenes, historic
buildings and homes, street scenes and farms. Some identified places are
Jackson, Vicksburg, Tougaloo, Robinson's Springs and
Robinsons Plantation, Mississippi; Taladoga, Alabama; and East Tennessee's
Cumberland Plateau. Two persons, Burton and Mary Humphrey Adams, are
identified.